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Article: Iranian journalist: a job with few options: after working for more than a decade at the now banned Iranian magazine Zanan, a journalist now in the United States describes her feelings of identity, location and loss.(IRANIAN JOURNALISTS: Women Reporters, Women's Stories)
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- Nieman Reports
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- June 22, 2009
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Iranian journalists, like their peers everywhere, make choices and decisions reflecting their individual identities, exigencies of time and place, and available options. How each answers the question, "What made you a journalist?" will vary as much as the lives do of those asked to respond. Yet they reach common ground with the recognition of how few options any of them have.
I became a journalist by coincidence, when a college professor asked me to assist the founder and editor of a newly published magazine in need of help putting together an editorial staff. The magazine, Zanan (Women), was postrevolution Iran's first feminist publication, launched with limited ...
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